Details
Contributor Burk & McFetridge, printer.
Title The Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Co. 316-318 and 320 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: Burk & McFetridge
Date [ca. 1885]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with two stones; 53 x 40 cm.(21 x 15.75 in.)
Description Advertisement showing an exterior view of the building built 1873-5 after the designs of Furness & Hewitt. Several pedestrians stroll on the sidewalk, including a man with a cane, and patrons enter the safe deposit company. In the right of the image, shows the gates open to the alley leading to Carpenter's Hall, visible in the background. Also contains the names of six officers of the bank, including President Thomas Cochran, printed below the title. The Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Company, established in 1872, provided safe storage for securities, currency, jewelry, silver plate, and other valuables.
Is referenced by Not in Wainwright
Notes Manuscript note on recto: Complt. of John C. Browne. Nov. 19, 1886.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 102
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 3 G 914
Burk & McFetridge operated from 304 and later 306-308 Chestnut Street.
Subject Carpenters' Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Farmers & Mechanics Bank (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Safe-deposit companies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1880-1890.
Advertisements -- 1880-1890.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bc 3 G 914